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(No Model.) f W. M. FISCHER.

CORK FASTENER.

Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILHELM M. FISCHER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CORK-FASTENER.

SPBGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,311, dated February 8. 1887.

' Application tiled August 17, 1886. Serial No. 211,098. (No model.)

with a cap or plate having hook-lugs on its edges, of a wire passed around the bottleneck and over said hook-lugs, all as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and iinally be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 are different side views of the bottleneck provided with my improved cork-fast ener. Fig. 8 is a top view of the same. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional View of the cap.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A metal cap or plate, A, made of sheet v metal or other suitable material, is provided on the edge with two opposite lugs, B, bent up to form hooks or loops. The cap may be entirelyat, or the upper surface may be conveX andprovided with a downwardly-proj ecting ange at the rim, and, if desired, a monogram, trade-mark, or other ornament may be embossed on said cap or plate A.

The fastening-wire D is bent to form a V- shaped part, a, at the separate ends of which,

down against the bottle-neck. Thereby the cap is held securely on the bottle-head and over the cork in the same. rPhe wire holds the cap at the edges, and does netpass over the center of the cap. If ati'n-foil cap is placed on the bottlehead and over the wire and plate or cap A,the

monogram or ornament on the plate or cap A will show clearly o n the end of the tin-foil cap, and will not be marked and disignred by the wires, as is the case when tin-foil caps are placed upon bottles in which the wire is placed over the middle part of the cork or plate or cap on the cork. The wire also holds the cap A in place more securely when applied to the edges of said cap than when applied to the middle.

` Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a plate or cap having short lugs at the side edges bent up to form loops 'or hooks, of a wire passed around the bottle-neckand through said loops or hooks,

substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a plate or cap having short lugs at the edges bent up to form hooks or loops, of a wire bent into V shape, passed through said loops or hooks at the widest part of the V, and having its ends inclined toward each other at that side ofthe bottle opposite the one on which the V-shaped part is placed, then twisted together and passed around the bottle-neck at the bottom of the head, and then twisted together and passed through the apex of the above f mentioned V-shaped part and bent down against the bottle-neck, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' 'WILHELM M. FISCHER.

Vtnesses: OSCAR F. GUNZ,

SIDNEY MANN. 

